Sculpting the Vortex State of a Spinor BEC

Abstract

We use Raman-detuned laser pulses to achieve spatially-varying control of the amplitude and phase of the spinor order parameter of a Bose-Einstein condensate. We present experimental results confirming precise radial and azimuthal control of amplitude and phase during the creation of vortex-antivortex superposition states.

4 pages, 6 figures, accepted to PRL

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